Live Firing of Civil War Siege Artillery, Part 1, 30 Pounder Parrott Rifle
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- See an original 30-pounder Parrott Rifle made during the Civil War, fire live explosive ammo at real targets over one mile away. The gun, ammo, carriage, crew and their duties is explained in detail.
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That's my dad!!!!!!! The number one man! Holy crap!
@SSS Dias and the guy who posted is 7 years older
@@davidca96 weird
@SSS Dias He's also passed and this is the most of his voice I've heard in 9 years
I'll never stop loving the sound of an arty shell flying through the air
Right? Imagine being on the receiving end of it!
@@diatomaceousexudate42 that's the best part
What I find especially fascinating is the insight this video gives on the ingenious technology in all this. Rifled barrels, impact and time-delay fuses, expanding rings around the shell perimeter, range and elevation tables. And to think this was the 1860's! Our Civil War ancestors certainly weren't stupid!
Yeah they learned well from the British and French.
@@3vimages471 And then the British, Germans, and French learned a lot from our war. That's how it works.
Look at krupp guns, being made at the same time!
@@satidog They did not really learn anything, most of what the civil war had to teach was already known. The American Civil war was just a good example for them.
And before you say anything-
-Trench warfare was nothing new
-Ironclads in battle was nothing new (Though hampton was the first time two ironclads fought each other, but everyone knew what would happen)
-Revolving turrets wasn't new, and the Monitor was a swedish ship design and had already been built in Sweden
-Rifled muskets for the infantry wasn't new either
@@ghostie7028 Just citing "firsts" is a thin understanding of the development of military strategy and tactics.
Commentator seems excited
EthanK-R 🙃
Hes at an Insurance conference.
very good explanation. it's nice to see a accurate and precise explanation of how the Parrot gun works.
This is the first comprehensive explanation I have ever seen of how one of these Civil War cannons was fired. Only, it would have been nice to see how the friction primer operates. Thanks for uploading! I did like very much the cross-section of the canister and exploding mechanisms.
This is an excellent, detailed close-up of what went on in an artillery crew. I'm particularly interested because I had two grandfathers who were in the same Confederate artillery unit, and both units had Parrott rifles. I'm working on a model 10-pounder. The more detail, the better Thanks!
Quite interesting - My family had men that fought in the civil war for the Union Forces. All Officers. All were wounded but survived. Most of them lived to be in their 90s. I never met any of them. But my mother did and she remembers them. My mother is 91 this year.
ask your mother many stories and try to record them or write them down. her mind is PRICELESS!
when Johnny comes marching home again Hurrah Hurrah . that song gives you chills . the whole video is now historic for sure . it'd be interesting to interview any of the remaining men who participated . this was awesome thank you
"boring" - "to long"
Dont listen to them cannonmn, this stuff is incredible. Keep uploading it.
'Too long'.
Boring
Many thanks for this. As a researcher on certain subjects, I appreciate all the hard work and knowledge you provided; it answered most of my questions with great acuracy.
you guys rock! I live in southern Oregon and would love to join a club like yours. Kids growing up no don't appreciate things like this
Therefore.... I hope this goes on for many many decades and then some! I was 1st Cav. 3rd Brigade Combat Team Baghdad, Iraq 2004.
HOOORRRAAHHH!!
I was 1/3 ACR Howbat in Iraq 2003-2004 too!!! 13Bravo!!! Tiger base, Train station, the dam/Powerstation for a bit. Al assad.
Thanks guys for giving and maintaining our FREEDOM.....i know it doesn't come FREE! U gotta serve and fight 4 it! Thx u USofA MILITARY!
yeah, i did French & Ind. War and Rev. War. had to help w/ artillery guys, but i've never seen anythin so massive. they're HUGE. amazing.
I'm just like to point out that a mile is about 1700 yards. Their target was 2000 yards away.
they could hit at twice that distance
NOTE: This was Awesome. Thanks so much for Posting!
Very good video. It's like you are right there in real time. It was great to see Bruce and Terry again. I miss being there.
This video was quite educational. I didn't know there were artillery with rifled barrels clear back then. That would explain the high degree of accuracy this piece was capable of. I was amazed by this video.
I have heard necessity is the mother of invention. In the case of the civil war, it became necessary to have artillery like this. I wish that war might have been avoided. Who knows how many people we lost who could have made useful contributions to the good of mankind.
Thanks ! ! !
Thought I was the only one ! Been saying that for decades !!!
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Impressive. I think everyone should watch this even if it's just a video it shows the reality of the power of these guns and brings an additional perspective to the magnitude of the war.
Indeed. The 10-inch Columbiads and 200 pounder Parrott Rifles that were mounted at Fort Moultrie and Fort Sumter during the Civil War could hit targets up to about 4.5 miles away! Some Civil War pieces were breechloaders, quite similar to what you guys used in the artillery.
love the south park style animations
I saw an excellent demonstration recently at Antietam battlefield.
Manning of the cannon starts at 15(:)20: the worm for clearing out debris, the sponge for extinguishing embers and the ram for loading the ammunition (meanwhile the gunner places his thumb over the vent to reduce air flow), elevation and sight and hand spikes for adjusting the cannon, gimlet and primer for firing the cannon. Further behind the cannon were the munitions carriages. Properly eight men in all manning one cannon.
This video is amazing. As someone who is very experienced loading and firing muzzleloading artillery, I can tell you that rarely if ever will you get a chance to see ordnance this large loaded and fired, let alone with live ammunition----let alone with LIVE shells. How did they clean up all the unexploded projectiles? This must have been shot on a military artillery range.
That seems likely.
The 6 inch (155 MM) shell weighed 97 pounds and I think the power weighed 13 lbs. That would send the shell a max of 11 miles. We still had to unscrew the plug in the shell, and screw in a fuse. It used a sight that was a bit like a periscope with graduated lines inside. Aiming stakes were set out at 25 and 50 feet which were used as the reference from left to right. We usually were firing too far away to visually sight on the target. We received numbers to use on the sight to aim the barrel.
I worked on a 12lb mountain howitzer and we fired that live a couple of times. I can't imagine more than twice that power! WOOO!!
Agreed, I taught it would be just another cheesy video showing cannon drill and people going through the motions but this is perhaps the best Ive seen showing the effects of actual munitions.
great video, thanks for making.
thanks for uploading these
Awesome video. So that's how those shells work. Thanks.
obviously older low def video, but excellent none the less! very cool! the rose of Alabama was a bonus too lol
I have really enjoyed seeing this video. Those old time gunners had it worked out. Interesting to see explosive shells used. I wonder how and by whom they are made.
Yeah I saw this movie called Glory recently and I just wanted to see what an actual cannonball fire would look like, then I got this, can't say no to education.
Great job on an informative video!!
Good explanation of the fuse.
Interesting.
I had no idea there were artillery pieces this accurate in 1864. Hitting an object at 2000 yards with a 27 pound shell is not easy.
It is amazing how little had changed by 1967 when I was in the artillery. Our pieces were loaded from the rear using a hinged breech block but most was still the same. We had to swab the piece between shots, the shell was loaded first with a ram from the rear to seal the brass rings into the chamber then the powder and the block was closed behind.
Very informative video. Good work.
Fascinating stuff thanks . Nice cardigan , much like mine .
Very interesting video!!!
Absolutely fascinating!
the third shot hit just to the left of the target if you look close enough you can see that it hit just left of it
great video
wonderful presentation. god bless r e lee
Fascinating!....but, why wouldn't the timed fuze be in the base of the shell?
Good shot for 2k yards, hats off to you gentlemen
Awesome video. Question: Would gun crews from that era be issued rifles or any sort of a personal weapon?
Very nice videos
This kicks ass!!
Very cool!
So if you carried it, tripped, feel over and dropped shell on front, will it blow up?.
How long does it take to shot in battle conditions? Something like one shot every 10 minutes?
This video is in somewhat "slow motion" to illustrate details of the loading/firing sequence. Although the siege guns are a bit slower, the 1861 field artillery manual specifies a rate of fire of 3 rounds per minute! So, as for the comment below about the cavalry charging the guns, this will work fine if your horse can run one mile in 20 seconds.... Most horses can't do 180 miles per hour.
+Norman Hughes But if you come at the guns from the flanks, they'll need several more seconds to traverse the gun and aim it at you. I suppose a good cavalry captain would watch and wait for the gun crew to get distracted or preoccupied with the battle before creeping in for the charge. I say both sides have same chance of having their day ruined.
thank you some one who knows what they are talking about !
Don't negate infantry support and that a 12 pounder witch canister has 30 golf ball sized rounds. I hate to think what a 30 pounder lobs in 1 shot if canister.
Doug... you just gotta settle down dude.
Are these reenactors still around as a formation?
Are there any legendary Gunner, who are always on target with the first or second shot?
wow, Doug Howser is ab awfully fantastic fella! snazzy dresser, great doo, AND is jazzed about siege artillery. what more could you ask for? i'm just bustin' your chops, Doug...you're ALL RIGHT, Dougis. you're an alright guy...i don't care what everyone else says about yuh, you're all right. jk, sorry...thanks for the video, 4real. appreciate it.
I cannot help but believe that under fire with bullets and shells screaming overhead that the crew of a gun like this would have been moving a whole lot faster than these guys. I understand safety and all that...but still...These guys act like they are all taking a lot of Valium.
Very nice - thank you ! ! !
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Very interesting! :)
What a cool video
Gives a good perspective next time I watch a civil war movie.
that was a good video ,I qlwqya did wonder what made cannon balls explode.thanks.
20:40 to see "Live Firing of Civil War Siege Artillery."
Wonder if they were shooting original projectiles? I wouldn't think anyone still made them.
Shane K most folks who shoot cannons and refurbished artillery get them made by people I saw a little breech loader at a country show a few years back and the guy said every shot bar the powder cost 25 pounds because each round was hand turned from solid copper on a lathe
I wish we could get modern footage of this :C
There was a 78 year old man who fought on the Union side at Gettysburg.
Wow.
I can't hear anything :(
How curious, this Parrott rifle is 4.2" bore, and perhaps not coincidentally, the modern US Army heavy mortar and ammo is also 4.2" diameter. Or at least it was so called in my day. The same heavy morter is now known as 120mm. Every mechanized infantry battalion has a 120mm mortar platoon in its HHC.
SO cool
Stuart Smalley of Civil War artillery?
Excited: Yup , just too excited.
Great!!! Thank you. My people were on the other end of that thing!!! God Bless ALL who lost life and limb during that terrible war. Gob Bless the CSA and Bobby Lee. May I suggest we all pray for our Country the U.S.A, she is in more danger today then ever before.
Yo: Hopefully you've heard about the Minneapolis rally where Trump accused Biden of being an ass kisser. Thank god we finally have someone on our side fighting for us.
That sweater would make a good swab !
Those ARE NOT animations... take a closer look. 13:15
Why only one channel?
Super educational video, but the narrator reminds me of Ben Stein doing a Visine commercial....
#4 man done lost half his stash to some over flash 😂
They should do a few shots going at battle speed show how fast they did this in real battle
These reenactments take so much time and the men are very old looking. I can't believe soldiers and cannon soldiers were much older than teenagers, and were scared at the time of fiing since they were being fired at, not these older gents. They appear to be in a "scientific experiments" type activity which war is far from I'm sure. Death is sudden and limbs blowing off changes your outlook I'm sure.
In relation to the timed fuse, You said it was ignited by the main charge. How can this be when the diagram shows the fuse to in front of the bullet?
Can't believe in 5 years no one has answered you. The flash from the discharge at the muzzle encompasses the entire projectile, igniting the forward-facing fuse (which was coated with a hardened disc of putty consisting of finely ground black powder and gum spirits). If the shell were to be loaded with the fuse facing rearwards upon the powder charge, the ignition of the firing charge would have driven the fuse up into the shell and bursting it before it ever left the barrel.
@@coinsmith: dang dude: you know your stuff. I'll bet you are a reenactor.
The round hit just to the left; how was that a direct hit? General Jackson would’ve made those guys repeat the class, “word for word; word for word” (Gettysburge the movie 🙂).
I did not expect that voice
"boring boring.." NOPE, it is not. It is a Video made by purpuse, to show in detail and educate, not just to show as many a big boom as possible ind the shortest possible Time..
Damn, dont these People have ANY apreciation for quality education, anymore?
Agree.
So these guns were completely useless against moving targets unless scoring a direct hit the very first time ?
wicked sweater lol!
If the target was movable, it would have moved after the first shot.
A direct hit the stoned narrator says. They missed the target all 3 times. Nice vid tho.
A 30 lb parrott would be pretty big. But I still don't believe they could see one a mile away.
+skyfix It would depend, a good commander would cover or conceal his guns using local terrain. The problem with a gun like is the the flat trajectory would force you to use direct fire, hence you have to see your target in order to shoot at it. And if you can see them, they can see you. They'll certainly know where your gun is when you start shooting with all that smoke.
Those guys had some eyesight back then. Billy Dixon shot an Indian Chief off his horse at almost one mile distance with a 50-90 in 1873. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Dixon
Ridiculous spelling
Well, they did have telescopes and binoculars, and some rifles were equipped with telescopic sights. So, spotting wouldn't be so difficult.
Little wonder the Parrot was excellent for counter-battery fire. You could hit them, but all the 12-pounder crew could do was swear at you bluebellys for being dishonorable.
I could never want to be the man ramming in the charge or projectile. Way too much danger there.
this has to be the most overly informative video I've ever seen
the commentator sounds like Garfield
This demo would been done a lot faster because you under fire by the enemy
I would put a sponge on the opposite end of the rammer pole....but that's just me.
they often had a separate poll with a cloth and bucket to do what you are describing for many different cannons.
Good vid , dept no. 1. & 2 man should NEVER be anywhere near that axis line of the gun bore upon loading the live Pedro &that live she'll !one wrong mistake and those two men , can be torn to prices ! People need to know this . This artillery piece is not a toy folks . They are shooting live shells . It can be an extremely dangerous hobby!
How do you get possession of these fine guns ?
Col. RAPR they are property of UNITED STATES OF AMERICA because you know they dont make them anymore you can find them in museums or sum rich guys backyard most of them are unable to fire
@@juralevak8545 I don't know if anyone makes any this large but there are companies who make smaller field artillery pieces for reenactors. They're pretty expensive, though, so usually a bunch of guys band together to buy one. They're not really regulated to buy because they're muzzleloaders but there are very few places where you're allowed to fire them.
@@brucetucker4847 feels so weird when I get a reply to an old comment
I had no idea they used 30 pounder
That is some serious knitwear lol
I wonder.....did they have an EOD team look for and safely dispose of the unexploded 2nd shot????......or did they leave it for some farmer to plow up someday?
It looks like a range-all those craters in the hillside. Presumably that’s a restricted area.
...the guy talking 12:44 has just smoked some weed and is just about to fall asleep...
King of battle, red leg forever
I never knew they had artillery shells like that back then...thought they were just round balls
The civil war was one of the first modern wars with things such as rifled muskets and shrapnel shells being used as well as early iterations of machine guns and hand grenades and landmines, that's why the casualty count was so high, they were using napoleonic tactics against weapons which could kill at 5 times the distance of the weapons those tactics were designed for.
@@jordanhicks5131 TRUE. The North even had repeating Henry rifles-but the Brass were stubborn about their implementation. Could have probably shortened the War.